Comparing google analytics with weblog expert

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m wild
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The weblog files and the google analytics files differ enormously.

For example in July alone my weblog files said I have 798,000 visitors to the site yet my google analytics say 172,000. What can be causing the anomaly.

I feel the google analytics is too low. But the weblog is too high. The only explanation I can think of with the google analytics is that the code is not inserted into every page. Yet I inserted into the header which is on every page.

With the weblog expert it is recording my page views in the millions. Making the page views per user look ridiculous. So I know the weblogs are wrong but don't know why?

Could the server be giving wrong data? If so how?
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Celand
Cool Michael, thanks for your help.
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TeKola
I setup %PageFiles% filter and Weblog Expert shows 152,265 Pageviews, GA shows 27,493 Pageviews. WE shows 15,306 Visitors while GA shows 4,100 Users. What's the difference? Bots excluded in WE. There is something wrong.
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Michael
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I setup %PageFiles% filter and Weblog Expert shows 152,265 Pageviews, GA shows 27,493 Pageviews. WE shows 15,306 Visitors while GA shows 4,100 Users. What's the difference? Bots excluded in WE. There is something wrong.
Probably there are some pages or scripts called using AJAX (and detected as pages based on file extension) that don't contain GA code and so aren't counted in it.

I recommend you to compare the page reports of GA and WLE to check whether the difference occur because of extra pages included in WLE, or whether the same pages have more visitors counted in WLE.
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Thomas Keukens
Many thanks for the help!
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Thomas Keukens
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled How is it possible that WeblogExpert gives far more visitors (I do not mean hits)....